by admin | Feb 26, 2013 | Newsletter
Dear Friend, Here is an update on our 2013 activities with Shan refugees in Thailand. It was my great joy to have son Brent here with me for one month this year. He arrived in time for our annual visit to the orphans we support from a displaced persons’ camp in...
by admin | Jan 22, 2013 | Newsletter
Dear Friend, The political situation in Burma has changed little. Under pressure from the international community and after comments by Aung San Suu Kyi, the government agreed to stop attacking the Kachin ethnic group—so they said. Reports from Kachin State are that...
by admin | Dec 13, 2012 | Newsletter
Chiang Mai, Thailand Dear Friend of Shan Refugees: “Premature euphoria.” That is the term Burma expert, Benedict Rogers, used at Chiang Mai University in speaking last week about international reaction to Burma’s recent conversion to a “democrary,” the freeing of Aung...
by admin | Oct 12, 2012 | Newsletter
Dear Friends of Shan Refugees: Things are changing fast in Burma. In November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest (after being confined to her home and yard for 15 years); in the spring of 2012, she was elected to Burma’s Parliament. Since then, she...
by admin | Jan 6, 2012 | Newsletter
Two Months in Thailand This has been an exciting year, with Hillary Clinton’s visit to Aung San Suu Kyi (read more about the effects of Hillary’s visit at this link http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22662); Suu Kyi saying she will run for the Burmese...
by admin | Oct 13, 2011 | Newsletter
Dear Friends of Shan Refugees: Here is an update on recent happenings in Shan State and Burma. Current news: Some prisoners, most of them criminals but some of them political, have been released. Not enough. Many people who simply questioned the government’s way of...
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